Spire Inc.
A natural gas distributor that pipes fuel to homes and businesses across Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi, under the name Spire. It began in 1857 as the Laclede Gas Light Company, chartered to light St. Louis's streets with gas lamps once tended by lamplighters with long poles. The company renamed itself Spire in 2016, a nod to a compressed-natural-gas subsidiary chosen because it echoes "inspire" and "aspire."